All 45 Civilizations Ranked Best To Worst In 2024 | AoE2 

Mongols are S+ tier if you hunt your trees.

Dont stress yourself with the length of the video. I find every information that comes from you on this topic useful and relevant, you dont have to think someone gets bored or something. The more the better here :) Thx a lot for the upload!

1st tier list since Hera joined GL and Dravidians are up there. Coincidence? I think not

wake up baby, new hera's tierlist just dropped

Nice video. Britons got gambesons in a patch some time ago though, so they have fully upgraded champs.

Byzantine's building HP bonus is insane. If you haven't played against them in quite a while, you forget the bonus exists. Then, boom, you get a match against the Byzantine and you're reminded how long it takes to tear down their TCs and Castles mid match.

34:45 Putting Koreans behind Koreans, we're getting outranked by ourselves now.

Byz building hp saved me so many times, won alot of treb wars with it

Been literally waiting for this since the start of 2024, thanks Hera!

konniks are just slept on, one day you will all see

As a returning player that as missed out on a lot of new civs and updates to other ones, I love that you don't JUST rate them but pretty much explain everything so anyone can understand!

Poor Sicilians and Buglarians being ranked as worst when they have awesome mini forts.

Thanks!!! I also saw all your gameplay against other pro players to become stronger in this game. I've been waiting for this video for a long time👑

Thanks for the tier list, appreciated! It would also be nice to have tier list for other maps as well, for example by following the maps like in Warlords 3: Open, Semiopen, Hybrid, Water, Closed, Nomad, Chaotic... ;)

If teutons are not at least A Tier this list is a joke

Papa Hera pls bless us with the tier list for team games next

I looked this up hoping Hera would have a video on this and what do ya know it came out 4 days ago. What a legend. Infinite content

Poles really feel like a study in "how to overnerf a civilization". I miss how good they were at a release.

Hera, we need a team game tier list next please! :) keep the good work going

slavs in B is totally underrated, people are sleeping on them imo

Great video 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Hell yeah, love a comprehensive video.

Vietnamese have the single most powerful civ bonus (enemy TC location revealed)

Thanks for the video man 😁👍

Love these tierlists, can we get a team game version

Mongols being stupid OP is just lore accurate.

Great video Hera 🤩

This is really interesting to me. I almost exclusively play Poles. I didn't like the Georgian start before the buff, and have not yet tried them since the buff. Seems I need to give them a go.

Nice video!!! :)

Italians are a bit underrated imo. You can get to imp faster. Great uu. Fully upgraded hussars. Great unique infantry. Great archers. Fully boomed hard to kill great on hybrid and water maps. Decent on arabia. Probably top 5 lategame composition with genoese hussar or condos. Behind bbc.

I love playing the poles. I would love to see a guide on it because you say they’re hard to play. Now I wanna be the best pole player 😂

A list like this would be great for each most played map: Arabia, BF, Amazon Tunnel, Arena and LN.

Nice to see a list that covers not only arabia.

15:18, man celts paladin remind me of your match every single time

I agree in general. But for me (and the snek aswell hehe) Portugese is overall the best civ.

Been waiting for this one

Happy to see Hindustanis and Gurjaras bumped up!

Now we just need tier lists for the most popular maps!

Finally some vindication on opinion of Britons from a pro. I've said on Steam forums and official forums whenever balance discussions or the like happens that Britons just feel lacking these days. Their gimmick is very one note. The other thing is all the other archer civs apart from maybe Koreans have better tempo early game, they get their bonuses in feudal, Britons do not. The +1 range is not all that crazy either, it helps but it's not broken. When they finally get to +3 bonus in late imp sure it's annoying but even then, many civs have solutions. I think they need a redesign or rework like what the Persians got. Especially the Yeoman tech, it's historically inaccurate naming and makes little sense. Give me something else, my archers already shoot far enough.

Always love your vids. Hope Teutons get at least A teir considiering how amazing their paladin monk combo is.

Well, I was playing a lot by these tier lists of Hera, but now I start to look a little bit with criticism:) I always defeat Romans when I play with Dravidians just send forward fully upgraded champs and unique unit combo and you will clear up legioners and scorpions you will counter with cheaper mangonels of Dravidians

Hera would be so good on a show like The Bachelor because he lets each civ know how beautiful and special they are under the right circumstances.

This feels like ranking civilisations by what effectively amounts to draft capital in a mixed map event.

Now I start to play with slavs it take time but with slavs you can mass siege and defend siege with strong infantry

I've played so many Magyar games and a well executed scout and spearman followup has ended games pretty fast

When looking at winrates only the results are quite different.

For buffing the Bulgarians what about " players can make one Krepost in Feudal age" and " Krepost can train petards"? , that will improve their defense in feudal age and will make them more dangerous at the " krepost Drop". For Sicilians i am not sure but i Think the Serjeant needs some kind of buff at Castle and Imperial Age.

I do love me a good old fashioned tier list.

to me, building hp is the defining bonus of byz, and why i hate playing against them

40:00 no redemption puts mayans juuuust below incas imo

i would chance Arambai for the The Myinsi, cavalry unit which is similar rank to european knights. Or in Burmese they were called cavalry prince.

waited for this

Big ups broseph

47:22 my problem with sicilians cavalier is how they not only lose to helbs relatively easily. but they also lose to every knight-line based civ in a knights vs knights fight. it's like you can beat sicilians cavaliers even if you just mirror what they are doing. itheir cavalier used to play a role better than most other knight-lines and then new civs and changed made their cavalier not even in the top 3 in what they are supposed to be good at. i mean it in the sense that their castle tech and civ bonus are supposed to make them beat archers/helbs. but they are actually as good as paladins vs helbs and slightly better than paladins vs archers. and then you have new archers with high base damage or even ignoring their armor.

Now what would be cool is to make shorts yt for each civs: more content for free

At least some AoE2 content I can watch until my game stops crashing with an upcoming patch

*Let's go!*

They should make a civ where the villagers actually walk in a damn straight line and it will be better than all the other civs

Yeoman needs to be buffed. It's too expensive for what it actually provides, on top of the +1 range and 2 attack for towers it should give all infantry extra melee armour or attack. Yeomen literally refers to freeholding commoners who made up the army

I know you tried it already with lierrrey and heartt but now that you are on GL and can do more content it would be nice to make something like this but with daut viper or tatoh to see their opinion

Can you do a Team DM tierlist plz?

I am a single player gamer and never do online so this might impact how I view the game. But I’d expect Spanish and Slavs to be higher. Vietnamese too.

I liked the respect shown to aztecs but huns and teutons are all time favorite and at least a tier.

The fact that the best player in the game has put the most civilisations in the game in B tier means that the game is actually really truly well balanced. Look at that distribution! Perfection. What a game to play

As a general rule of thumb, 'weak' Civ's are held back by either a tiny Tech Tree and a lack of options, or a lack of 'military focus'. Britons just don't have the bonuses to compete. Shepherd's is small and brief, TC's save like 600 Wood, and all they have other than those are _really long-ranged_ Archers and a blast-damage Trebuchet's UT. All other units are just generic. Bulgarians have bonuses split between Infantry and Cavalry, but neither is strong enough to support an entire Civ vs counter-units. Compare them to Burgundians: their extreme focus means they can still be countered, but have a more *consistent* playstyle. Burmese, again, have their bonuses split between economy, Infantry, Battle Elephants, Monks, and their UU is a Cav Archer. Which is weird, but without Arambai, the rest of their units are slow and either melee or Coverters, which are vulnerable to micro'd range. Celts UU is fast Infantry, bonuses are faster Infantry... and slower-but-stronger Siege, and Castles that heal nearby Infantry. So you get caught in a loop of fast Infantry that have to stop to get their full benefit, and Siege that are powerful but take time to do anything. Ethiopians are split between Archers, UU Infantry, Siege and Cavalry-counters. Unless you're up against Cav, they're meh. Goths are hyper-focused on Infantry and have a good economy bonus, but Infantry are weak now and they have no 'counter-Infantry option' (Champions could be classified as such, but that's a stretch). They crush Cavalry and Archers, but lose to Cav Archers and Siege. Huns, other than 'no houses', have very few bonuses: Stables, Tarkans, Cavalry Archers and Trebuchets each get _one_, which is 'meh' and fits the theme of the Civ, but doesn't give them much variety or a stand-out advantage. Magyars are held back by the fact that their bonuses only apply to Hussars, a Hussar Trash UU (redundant), and Cavalry Archers. Polish have good economy-focused bonuses, but only a few, and they're Cavalry-focused which is countered by Halberdiers and Camels. Sicilians are extremely-defensive, but in AoE2 the best defense is a good offense, turtling is hard, and they have almost no military focus. Teutons are also defense-focused, but they once again lean too far into turtling and their 'best' Unit, their UU, is hard-countered by range. Turks bonuses are even later-game than Spanish/Portuguese, and their only non-Gunpowder is Hussars and crappy Cav Archers.

Hope they buff Sicilians and Bulgarians because Krepost and Donjons are fun buildings.

You gotta love it when your day 1 civ is in the S tier. Mongols ride or die 💯

-40% farmcs cost and teutons are c? Damn didnt expect this, I thought it helps early/midgame a lot

Dravidian is crazy op asf

"There is no reason to play Poles as Georgians exist" - Hera, 2024, stating the powercreep

Finally! Now I can beat 'Easiest' AI!

People think it's a mic on the right but as a gun expert it's obvious it's a hand Canon held point blank by Viper

Hera: *releases "why poles suddenly became OP" Developers: buffs fowarks. Hera: *C-tier

Georgians 1st S tier? 😲 I’m 14xx rank, would love to play them properly but far away for my preference. Thanks for the video 🫡👏

As always, these tier lists should have times tamps for civs :/ Otherwise, great content!

Bulgarians tech Bagains should go for every infantry unit or something like this, + they should have some economy bonus

Requesting built-in or commented time stamps, ty!

I was curious about why Chinese winrate skyrocketed in mid-elo. I guess the drop-off hotkey helps a lot.

I will be honest I still think Mayans being S tier is valid at least lowest S. Anytime the game goes into the later game I feel you have more stone, gold, everything comes easier. I feel that combined with the cheaper archers makes for massive deathballs and the ability to tech switch to eagle warriors with all the gold and all that HP with unique tech. Its still my highest winrate over my persians. I think the meta might be shifting but that civ bonuses are out of this world.

Me, a fool who just plays casual Team Matches, seeing Magyars and Poles down near the bottom "Now, it's time to wait for the Team Match tier list"

What is the best civilization for a 1v1 against AI? No sea. Is it possible to beat the extreme AI without rush early game of arch-knights? But waiting for the "late" game?

Damn, just finished watching the 2023 one and now this is out

As always I skip to the end and then watch the civs, I wanna see Hera talk about.

Can you make one for team games?

Vikings B tier naurrr 😢

Im low elo player like sub 600 low so maybe its just that, but i have like a 80% win rate with Bulgarianians on non water maps.

I think saracens are a very misunderstood civ. If you use the market and buy a ton of food, you can advance to the next age really fast. And then, because the food price is so high, you can sell all the food late game and have gold way longer. Plus you can fully upgrade pretty much any unit, strong camels, archers break walls, mamelukes, bbc, and Hussar. I think it's at least a tier for me. If you use the market perfectly then it's pretty much the number 1 civ. But i think they are an a tier civ overall. I agree with the rest of the tierlist, i like how the tiers are balanced. (No 10 civs in s tier)

How can you do my Ethiopians dirty like this, also I think it's another time for a low elo Civ tier list so I don't run out of any Hera Content

After Georgians the list followed a nice normal distribution, that's how you know someone understands how tier lists work.

Do you think Georgians are OP, very strong, just right, or underpowered since the new patch? Very curious about your thoughts on them.

I keep rooting for the Portuguese but I never expected them to be way up there

Long videos are great,

i'm a simple man, i see aoe2 tierlist, i click

I think u completely discarded closed maps which is what most of aoe2 fans (being amature) love

It's wild how some civs you rated as S-tier on previous patches have fallen to C-tier.

Personally i think Cumans arent that terrible in hybrid maps because you can still dock and play standard while you can pressure in land with the cheapper stable or archery range and as you said wood savings are crutial, the thing is that again you have to take the initiative, personaly is better with scouts becaue they ar a little bit faster and can catch opponent offguard but if i were to make a tweak to the civ is simply modify their cav speed, instead of Feudal 5%, Castle 10%, and Imp15%; i would rather go like Dark 4%, Feudal 8%, Castle 12% and Imp 16% because i think scout info for cumans has a big impact, they are intended to be a mobility focused Civ and giving them the fastest unit in the game (lightcav or hussar) should be their ensaign (Nothing personal against Shrivamsha) and the second change is giving them Bracer, i dont know what developers thinked when not giving them one of the most crutial and historically accurate upgrades for them in Imp, because sometimes with cumans you want to engage with CA or Kipchak but you're simply outranged by 2 tiles againsty its most common counter so when you fire your first shots you already lossed one or two units or are severely damaged and according to Data their worst stage of the game is Imp and i think a lot of that is because they feel incomplete without bracer for their CA or Kipchak.

The thing about sicilians is that they really lack tempo or a power unit, sure whenever I played them 1v1 I don't feel happy about it because you are likely having to adapt a bit and do something about it cause you expect a sweaty off-meta play and you have to be ready to react or play with an eye on your base. But on equal player levels I find them very underwhelming and I think I literally always won except maybe one time I did a crazy douche and lost the tc? I think it could be vs spanish now that I think about it buy anyways, it should be an annoying game but easy win. It feels like a disrespect pick even. Their economy has nothing, their donjon play even if you sub barracks with a key location first donjon is very clunky, you just counterattack them or distract, some walls and get ahead on economy and you are golden, you get overrun one side pivot to another, under no circumstances you are getting less resources than a silician player unless you totally messed up, went for aggression lost everything to tc arrow or play overly passive and don't even wall kind of messing up. Monks hard counter them, get to castle before them and just crossbow, archers even, vill rush the first forward donjon on sight, you can skip spears for the most part, if they play a meta game and maybe a castle drop what is that even going to do? They still have a losing eco! They go forward, need two mining camps, farms? They will be behind. Horse collar upgrade is midgame and they mostly can't afford them so it feels like a trap the extra food bonus. They can't build two lumbercamps or fullwalls without wasting their window for winning moves, so just counterattack them and they lack the mobility to answer. Sure their sergeants have armor but micro archers and they are not a threat. Keep your mental and any matchup against them you are winning. Even playing normal and reacting late, what are those guys going to do? I feel like they need a bonus that kicks early and helps them being smooth. There is one thing about Sicily and it's famous for his vines. I feel giving them a 0.25 trickle of gold from berries would help them field those first sergeants and mining camp stone first then gold later without falling too much behind. Portuguese set the kind of bonus that maybe Sicilians crave about. Why not?

this is my asmr

When you are past 1st of April. and Teutons still aren't S+ tier PePesadface

Britons may not be great, but the longbowmen are so satisfying to use. Plus being British makes me biased.